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The Glasgow Subway is an underground light metro system in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground rail transit system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro . [ 2 ]
Upon withdrawal car 128 was preserved by Glasgow's Riverside Museum, owners of three First Generation subway cars. 128 was moved on display during June 2024. [ 23 ] The final day of operation for the second generation stock was June 28 2024 with cars 106, 207 and 120 performing the final service for inner, And 119, 203 and 103 performing the ...
The Subway is the second oldest underground rail service in Great Britain, first place is the London Underground. The system comprises one circular line, with fifteen stations and two sets of rail that operate in alternative directions (Outer Circle clockwise; Inner Circle anticlockwise).
Glasgow has a well developed network of park and ride sites operated by SPT [7] or Scotrail. These exist at railway and subway stations across the greater Glasgow area. The Glasgow Subway has three park and ride sites with a total of 1,109 spaces with at least 10,000 further spaces spread out across the local rail network.
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Close to Buchanan Bus Station and providing interchange with Glasgow Queen Street railway station via a travelator, it is the busiest station on the Subway, with 2.54 million passengers in the 12 months ending 31 March 2005. [9] When built in 1896 the station had a single island platform serving both tracks.
Shields Road subway station is a station of Glasgow Subway, serving the Pollokshields and Kingston areas of Glasgow, Scotland. Nearby is Charles Rennie Mackintosh 's Scotland Street School Museum . This was one of four (now three [ 8 ] ) stations which has Park and Ride facilities.
Glasgow's Subway is one of the four underground urban rail networks in the UK (the others being in London, Newcastle and Liverpool). Edinburgh has a tramway to and from the airport. On 1 January 2006, Transport Scotland was established, which would oversee the regulation of railways in Scotland and administer major rail projects. [ 10 ]